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PSTOIC annual dinner - 11th January 2025

Thanks go again to Olivier and Rex for organising this year's Bodgers Assemble. January brought us the Annual PSTOIC dinner and we stuck to last year’s winning formula. Kicking off with pre-dinner drinks at Bow Street Tavern at 18:00, followed by a meal next door at Wildwood Restaurant. The date that wasn't to be missed: Saturday, 11 January 2025. The theme? "Bring Something Controversial." Let’s shake things up a bit.

There was a bit of a problem with the Wildwood booking as on the day at 11am, Rex received a call asking where we all were. Later Rex arrived at the restaurant, past the queue of people waiting to get in, to confirm we would all get a table later. Winter Warmer was on tap at Bow Street and there was a welcome return this year of Andy, Rebecca and Megan. Matt brought in a logic interface board from a pipe organ for us all to analyse. Olivier added an acceptable bodge for the fuse.

Apologies for absence were received from Alex who submitted an early remote entry for the year's controversial theme.

Controversial entries for this year's theme included:

After a bit of discussion, voting was carried out in three stages. First a vote by everyone to select their top four entries. These four entries were then narrowed down to two by Rebecca, Megan and Martin. Finally to add to the controversial theme, ChatGPT was asked to pick the most controversial item from the final two entries (which it was a bit reluctant to do).

Thanks again to Andy for creating this year's medal.

The theme for 2026....

Bring something historical

(ChatGPT was also asked to decide on a possible theme based on previous year's themes and came close with "Nostalgic")


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